Friday, February 27, 2009

It has been days since Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal unsuccessfully thrust himself dramatically onto the national stage, and yet the negative effect of his present public relations tailspin has yet to stop plummeting.

The latest scoop is that Jindal's heroic tale that he used in his speech about how he used his awesome Republican "can do" spunk to cut through the red-tape and stop the Republican beaurocrats from blocking efforts to rescue those lazy, shiftless Katrina victims from the evils of big government was a lie.

Bobby Jindal may not be as loopy as Sarah Palin yet, but he's working on it!

It's my understanding that the main reason that Alf was never cast to play super villain Ernst Starvos Blofeld in any of the James Bond films was because of fears that he would eat all of the evil white kitties.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

In an attempt to take some of the shine off of President Barack Obama's speech before a joint session of Congress last night, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gave the official Republican response to Democrat's attempts to save the economy.

After President Obama's awesome speech, I watched with some degree of trepidation as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal started to speak. My fears were quickly quelled - Jindal was terrible. Upon hearing Jidal speak for a few minutes, my first impression was that he sounded like a condescending Mr. Rogers describing his neighborhood to his childish listeners.

Jindal merely derided President Obama's policies, and really offered no solutions to America's present woes - with the exception of his perceived need for further tax cuts, presumably for big business. He made this cryptic claim only moment's after President Obama had just announced a massive tax cut for 95 percent of working Americans. He also asked the members of his party to return to their principles of limited government and fiscal discipline.

After eight years of George Bush, it is fairly comical to hear Jindal attack Obama's economic policies as 'irresponsible'. Also, Jindal made a huge mistake when brought up Katrina victims to flaunt his own personanal narrative - people still remember which politial party is responsible for that fiasco. Even FOX News gave Jindal a thumbs down.

In reaction to Obama's speech, House Minority Leader John Boehner was quoted as saying, "I thought the tone was good. But for very few exceptions, I could have given the same speech." thinkprogress.org

Monday, February 23, 2009

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has announced that he will decline stimulus money specifically targeted at expanding state unemployment insurance coverage, becoming the first state executive to officially refuse any part of the federal government's payout to states. indianexpress.com

When President Obama signed the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act last week, it included three different provisions to benefit unemployed workers. The first provided funding to states that allowed for a $25 per week increase in benefits. The second extended the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program which gives 20 weeks of federally-funded unemployment benefits to individuals "who had already collected all regular state benefits," while the third provision widened the pool of people eligible to receive unemployment benefits.

Today, however, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced his intention to oppose changing state law to allow his Lousiana citizens to qualify for the second two unemployment provisions. Jindal said the state would only be accepting money to increase the unemployment insurance payments for those who currently qualify for unemployment insurance.

In all, Jindal turned away nearly $100 million in federal aid for his state's unemployed residents. Further, as the National Employment Law Project projected on Febuary 13, EUC extension alone would have benefited 24,981 Louisiana residents. Jindal justified his decision by claiming that expanding unemployment benefits would result in tax increases for businesses. In a press release, the governor's office explained:

The Governor said the state will not use a portion of the stimulus package that requires the state to change its law to expand unemployment insurance (UI) coverage to qualify for up to $32.8 million of the federal stimulus funding because it ultimately would result in a tax increase on Louisiana businesses.

But it is not clear why participating in the expanded unemployment insurance program would result in tax increases for business. By Jindal's own estimate, the recovery package would have funded his state's unemployment expansion for three years, at which point the state could — if it chose to do so — phase out the program.

As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin suggested earlier today, perhaps Jindal's presidential ambitions are "clouding" his judgement. "I think he's been tapped as the up-and-coming Republican to petition a run for president the next time it goes around. So he has a certain vernacular, and a certain way he needs to talk right now," Nagin said. thinkprogress.org

No time for blogging today! Gemriane Gregarious and I are just leaving the Oscars at the time of this post. (Jeepers! Jon Stewart is a lot taller than I had imagined, and I had no idea that he has an Australian accent!) In the meantime you can watch this swell video of Cat vs Box!

No time for blogging today! I am too busy mopping up the details of my "underwater" mortgage. (I think that I am going to need a lot more paper towels, I must say!) In the meantime, you can watch this swell video by Blue Gal, "Meet the Press Meets Space Ghost." This is the funniest video that I have seen in a long time! Way to go, Blue Gal. :o)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Shame on you, Henrietta Hughes [ 2 ], for being homeless on live television. Don't you know that it upsets the white folk?

America As Bread Line: Pathetic Display at Obama Town Hall in FloridaI was listening to Rush Limbaugh play clips from this pathetic parade of victims at the Obama town hall in Fort Myers today. Geez, could they stack the audience with a more helpless bunch of whiners and complainers? JammieWearingFool

What a surprise. They held a pro-stimulus rally in the middle of the day, and a welfare office broke out. Bloodthirsty Liberal

Slave Begs her Master for a HouseBy Jonathan Gardner

Another thought on the free house Obama found for the homeless woman:

Since when is it acceptable for an American to ask the president for something? The president is the servant of the people, not the other way around. This reminds me of a different type of relationship: slave/master or serf/noble.

My ancestors fought and died so that woman and her family could have the freedom to be free. Now she is selling herself and her family short by willingly becoming a slave or a serf for the government. Federal Way Conservative

Obama is apparently the Messiah. While the real Messiah offers life and salvation, Obama offers houses. Federal Way Conservative

Rush Limbaugh: Do you think that the people who chose these people to ask questions on the Obama staff might have jobs right now? Did they purposely select these people for these questions? Do you think so? If they didn't, some heads are going to roll. If they did purposely scour that crowd for these kinds of questions, and there was more than just this one, so you have to assume this is what they wanted. They want people looking at Obama this way. [...]

Rush Limbaugh: I asked a staff a moment ago a little quick question. Henrietta Hughes. She's the woman in Fort Myers that wants the house, the car, and the kitchen. Everybody thinks, "Well, it's the last we'll hear of Henrietta Hughes."

No, it's not. I will bet you that inside of two weeks, Henrietta Hughes will be on Oprah, at which time she will get all of that stuff. Oprah's company will buy it. Oprah and Obama will share the credit, and we will see how the new America works together to solve problems. And then we will be told, "All you have to do is ask. All you have to do is ask." Now if you're poor old Julio, Julio's probably saying, "What the hell did I take the day off for? This is all I get? I show up, I'm at McDonald's for four-and-a-half years, and I'm getting screwed on benefits. I asked the president for more benefits and he tells me, the president of the United States tells me, 'Hang on, pal. I'm going to cut your payroll tax so you'll have a little bit more to spend.'" Julio said, "That's exactly what I need. I need enough money for another Happy Meal every month. Yippee yippee yippee yippee." Oh! If you don't laugh at this stuff, folks, you get depressed. You get really depressed. Rush Limbaugh

No time for blogging today! I am busy preparing my army of giant robot jellyfish for shipment to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. I figure that with the way things have been going in the senate, he could use all of the jellyfish that he can get! In the meantime, you can watch this swell video of the awesome oratory skills and leadership abilities of my giant robot jellyfish!

This venerable pooper scooper does present one dark cloud on his adoring public's horizon, however. When asked if he wanted to pursue a career in politics, Wurzelbacher said, "I don’t know if the American public deserves me." Egads, no! Say it ain't so, Joe! From now on, we must all work extra hard to become worthy of this remarkable and important sewer worker's political ambitions.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

No time for blooging today! Germaine Gregarious and I have gone incognito to do what we can about America's financial crisis, one Chief Executive Officer at a time. In the meantime, you can watch this swell video of the Hexapodmeisterschaft Robot.(Mankind will have to concede defeat in the war against machines when robots can dance better than their puny wetware rivals.)

Happy Blogroll Amnesty Day! I first learned about this blogosphere holiday through the blog of the fabulous Blue Gal. You can read the frightening details of this event at the fantastic blog of the holiday's creator, Jon Swift, and also at the blog of the other leading event co-conspirator, the equally awesome Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

Blue Gal suggests that we should post the link to a few of our favorite blogs, and post them so that others can read about them, become aware of them - and finally blogroll these newer and most recently discovered blogs.

Based on Blue Gal's expressed wishes, I have thus gone through a lengthy winnowing process of my own blogroll to find the very best blogs, and I present the following blogs for your consideration as part of the Blogroll Amnesty celebrations.

Dr. Zira, I must caution you. Experimental brain surgery on these creatures is one thing, and I'm all in favor of it. But to suggest that we can learn anything about the simian nature from a study of man is sheer nonsense. Man is a menace, a walking pestilence. He eats up his food supply in the forest, then migrates to our green belts and ravages our crops. The sooner he is exterminated, the better. It's a question of simian survival.